Patterns of Cytokine Production in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 (HIV-1)-Specific Human CD8 + T Cells after Stimulation with HIV-1-Infected CD4 + T Cells
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- 1 October 2005
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Society for Microbiology in Journal of Virology
- Vol. 79 (19), 12536-12543
- https://doi.org/10.1128/jvi.79.19.12536-12543.2005
Abstract
Although human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-specific CD8 + T cells can produce various cytokines that suppress HIV-1 replication or modulate anti-HIV-1 immunity, the extent to which HIV-1-specific CD8 + T cells produce cytokines when they recognize HIV-1-infected CD4 + T cells in vivo still remains unclear. We first analyzed the abilities of 10 cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) clones specific for three HIV-1 epitopes to produce gamma interferon, macrophage inflammatory protein 1β, and tumor necrosis factor alpha after stimulation with epitope peptide-pulsed cells. These CTL clones produced these cytokines in various combinations within the same specificity and among the different specificities, suggesting a functional heterogeneity of HIV-1-specific effector CD8 + T cells in cytokine production. In contrast, the HIV-1-specific CTL clones for the most part produced a single cytokine, without heterogeneity of cytokine production among the clones, after stimulation with HIV-1-infected CD4 + T cells. The loss of heterogeneity in cytokine production may be explained by low surface expression of HLA class I-epitope peptide complexes. Freshly isolated HIV-1-specific CD8 + T cells with an effector/memory or memory phenotype produced much more of the cytokines than the same epitope-specific CTL clones when stimulated with HIV-1-infected CD4 + T cells. Cytokine production from HIV-1-specific memory/effector and memory CD8 + T cells might be a critical event in the eradication of HIV-1 in HIV-1-infected individuals.Keywords
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